And he has done it again! Who would have thought that Christopher Nolan was to top his movie “The Dark Knight” immediately with his following film? Well I did, but then again it is a sensation. Let’s see and wait what will follow, but whether Nolan will be able to top this creative masterpiece, we’ll have to wait and see, it certainly will be a worth a wait.
Directed, written and produced (plus Emma Thomas) by Christopher Nolan this movie has Nolan written all over, not only is he the creative master mind behind the idea, but he is also the one turning it into a visual reality for us.
The movie offers everything, wit, complexity, amusement, action, special-effects, a great score and entertainment. Though it is 148 minutes long we yearn for more, since time just flies by, that is how well the movie captures your attention. The mysterious end of the movie let to many theories and discussion on the internet, yet one should discuss the fact if this movie is really such a masterpiece and deserves its spot under the best movies ever made. IMDB already gave the movie the 3rd spot, which might be unfair to a lot of masterpieces that have existed and proven themselves before “Inception” hit theaters. But as we all know, rankings are a peculiar thing changing from creator to creator, though it is understandable that in the mainstream business, “Inception” certainly deserves a spot on the podium, but whether we all agree if it deserves its spot on the podium considering all of film history we could end up finding ourselves in a never ending argument. Yet for a blockbuster production this movie brings forth more then we expected to see, for some of us if not all. Most of us had to think with the movie to actually make sense of it. The suspense rate and involvement factor was quiet high, which, lets be honest is usually not the case when we go to see other Hollywood movies.
However it would have been better if the movie would have tried to prove itself without the major cast of A-list Hollywood actors. Having two A-list actors would have been more than enough and cheaper at the same time, yet the need to fill the whole cast with Hollywood stars, shows in a way that the producers (including Nolan) did not trust the plot itself and took the easy way out.
The movie is about Dom Copp (Leonardo DiCaprio), the main character of the story and his pointman Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who are on an extraordinary mission. They engage in people’s minds through dreams, by creating a dream reality for the intended person, an architecture sets up the dreams, and only kicks can awake them. One mission, which has the aim to lead cooperate rival Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy) to convince Fischer to break-up his fathers empire, is more complicated from the previous missions the team undertook. For this they are joined by three new team member Ariadne (Ellen Page) the new architect, Eames (Tom Hardy) who will change appearances in the dream and chemist Yusuf (Dileep Rao). The mission will lead the team from one dream, deeper into another, always leaving a person behind who will prepare all the necessary preparations for the kick (awaking).
While this is the general plot of the movie, there is a second plot line that also interferes with the actual plot, Dom Copps private life, his memory of his wife, by which he is haunted. She often interferes in the dreams causing danger for everyone. While on one side the movie is about the mission to lead Robert Fischer to break up the empire, on the other side, we are on a mission of trying to find out what the story behind Dom Copp and his wife is.
Impressive but yet very cliche are some strategies used in the movie, like the fact that neither Dom nor we get to see the faces of his children, not even in his memory, leading us to assume, that once we get to see their faces he will be back in reality, since for him, who is the most and only complex character in the movie, showing similarities with DiCaprio’s previous character in “Shutter Island”, has a hard time to distinguishing the dream from reality.
So whether this movie is really a masterpieces in the sense of a new innovation or just a creative story that uses film techniques that have proven themselves throughout film history very well, is a reality or a dream that you shall decide for yourselves.
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